Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition
This paper presents the preliminary results of experimental research of whispered speech recognition that was based on the application of artificial neural networks (ANN). The paper also describes a speech database of words that were spoken in a whisper and normal manner, which was created especiall...
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| author | Đ. T. Grozdić B. Marković J. Galić S. T. Jovičić |
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| description | This paper presents the preliminary results of experimental research of whispered speech recognition that was based on the application of artificial neural networks (ANN). The paper also describes a speech database of words that were spoken in a whisper and normal manner, which was created especially for this study. A part of this database was used for preliminary training and testing of the ANN. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) in normal speech and whispered speech were used as an input to the ANN. The case of speaker dependent recognition was tested and ANNs with optimal topologies have a 97.98% accuracy in speech recognition and 96.21% in whisper recognition for a male speaker. The results for a female speaker were very similar. In the case of whisper recognition, when ANN was trained for normal speech the score of whisper recognition was 75.71% for a male speaker (82.14% for female), and vice versa, when ANN was trained for whisper, normal speech recognition was 82.14% for a male speaker (90% for female). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f61a3bc01e234d17822f6a0736965c692022-12-22T01:10:56ZengTelecommunications Society, Academic MindTelfor Journal1821-32512013-11-0152103106Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech RecognitionĐ. T. GrozdićB. MarkovićJ. GalićS. T. JovičićThis paper presents the preliminary results of experimental research of whispered speech recognition that was based on the application of artificial neural networks (ANN). The paper also describes a speech database of words that were spoken in a whisper and normal manner, which was created especially for this study. A part of this database was used for preliminary training and testing of the ANN. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) in normal speech and whispered speech were used as an input to the ANN. The case of speaker dependent recognition was tested and ANNs with optimal topologies have a 97.98% accuracy in speech recognition and 96.21% in whisper recognition for a male speaker. The results for a female speaker were very similar. In the case of whisper recognition, when ANN was trained for normal speech the score of whisper recognition was 75.71% for a male speaker (82.14% for female), and vice versa, when ANN was trained for whisper, normal speech recognition was 82.14% for a male speaker (90% for female). http://journal.telfor.rs/Published/Vol5No2/Vol5No2_A4.pdf Neural networksspeech recognitionwhisper recognitionwhispered speech database |
| spellingShingle | Đ. T. Grozdić B. Marković J. Galić S. T. Jovičić Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition Telfor Journal Neural networks speech recognition whisper recognition whispered speech database |
| title | Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition |
| title_full | Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition |
| title_fullStr | Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition |
| title_short | Application of Neural Networks in Whispered Speech Recognition |
| title_sort | application of neural networks in whispered speech recognition |
| topic | Neural networks speech recognition whisper recognition whispered speech database |
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